A renowned human rights activist, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, has condemned in strong terms the penultimate Saturday’s violent attack on the life of Osun State Governor, Alhaji Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola.

He thanked God for saving the life of the Governor during the violent attack while urging the Governor to ensure that the government fish out those thugs that earlier attacked the peaceful protesters before the Saturday violence.

Sulaiman described both violent attacks on Governor Oyetola and protesters as barbaric and primitive, saying that the attack was the handiwork of hoodlums that used the opportunity of peaceful EndSARS protest to perpetrate evils by also looting some stores at Osun Mall earlier before the violent attack on Oyetola and his entourage to the scene of the protest.

Comrade Sulaiman, who declared his total support to the protest against the Police brutality and extra-judicial killings by men of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), stated that men of disbanded SARS had wreaked havoc to the innocent citizens of the country than good, calling on the government to listen to the cry of the masses on total end of SARS instead of changing of name to SWAT.

He added that the government should embark on total reform of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in accordance with democratic principles.

This was contained in a statement Sulaiman personally signed, copies of which were made available to newsmen on Tuesday. He condoled with the families of the two persons that lost their lives on the faithful Saturday in different two locations in the state capital in connection with the protest but not connected to the violent attack on Governor Oyetola, praying to God to give the state and families of deceased the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.

The rights activist also called on the State Government to fish out the earlier attackers of the EndSARS peaceful protesters at Olaiya junction, few days to the violent attack on the Governor, saying that as the State was looking for the hoodlums that attack the Governor at the scene of the protest, they should not forget the attackers of the protesters too no matter whose ox is gored.

While sympathising with the good people and government of Osun State, Sulaiman urged the Coordinator of the peaceful protest of EndSARS in the State not to allow the hoodlums and people with ulterior motive to hijack the peaceful protest from them and the protesters should be ready to dialogue with the government to pressure for their home demands for betterment of our society.

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